OLDHAM, James Basil (1882-1962)
CL Shrewsbury School 1911-1960
He became recognized as a national authority on bookbinding and published, inter alia, Shrewsbury School library bindings: catalogue raisonné (1943) and his 1949 Sandars lectures, English blind stamped bindings (1952). He taught history at the School where he was also a Housemaster and published his History of Shrewsbury School 1552-1952 (1952).